I just find it friggin weird for people to look up my other characters. Whatever reason that may be.
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I can understand people who are being stalked and/or harassed would want to keep their characters private, but if all these nice people have done nothing to bring attention to themselves or make enemies that can’t just let their hatred go, why do they fear being stalked in the first place?
I know the internet can be a toxic place, but hiding the names of some characters in a game for the sake of it seems a bit OTT to me. No wonder the attitude of “You must have something bad to hide” if you disable alt tracking is quite common really.
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Whosoever posts all of Settra’s titles without copy-pasting shall unconditionally be granted the Crown of the Interweb.
Edit: … Please don’t try that here. Please.
ask Shonn this for me please.
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Why? What an odd thing to say.
It’s whack because as an argument it’s saying that a general value (such as privacy) doesn’t matter because you don’t really make use of it personally, albeit applied in the very small scale thing of play pretend video game. There’s arguments you can make in favor of an alt tracking thing but the “well if you don’t have anything to hide’…” reasoning just seems like a fallacy to me
i hate this, feels like im back in 2012 again and my xbox 360 is about to get a red ring of death
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can i haz cheezburger?
And yes. I hate myself for typing that.
What the hell are you on about lmao. Games have offline modes for a reason, WoW as a game had a massive community backlash back when battle.net didn’t have it. A person have every right to not want a third party website listing their every character, and thinking that it’s because they’re an ERPer is some next level paranoia. I’ve had an online stalker and I very much wanted to get away from him, and had every right to block him from knowing my list of alts. But also; no one needs to justify this to you.
This isn’t in favour of OP/Lukas btw they can get back to clown college
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mercy, i want to be able to play skyrim when i get back home from school, please
Yeah I’ll quickly state once again that I’m in much the same boat here ^
Hey hey hey… now that i have the crown.
You should take this thread down.
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On the other side of the coin, I think the mantra of "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. " Is equally dangerous and pervasive.
But to your other point, unfortunately I wish that it’d be as easy as mutual forgiveness, but online stalking isn’t so easily stopped, and nice people are targeted for either no, or for obscene reasons, even if they themselves have done nothing wrong.
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Off topic. I will forever resent Skyrim for activating my inner arachnophobia. That game had the worst god damn spiders in the entire world and I will never recover from it. I legit took the CD out of my PS3 and never played it once after one ambushed me. I only returned to the game once I got it on PC and modded the bastards out.
I totally understand your point and if someone who hasn’t courted such vile behaviour from another person on the internet, but still gets stalked in an online game, then by all means hide their own characters and put the stalker on ignore on all platforms and report where possible. I was more meaning disabling tracking for no reason at all seems OTT. Just an opinion, not meant as a dig at anyone who hides their alts.
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Yeah, that we can agree, just think there are better ways.
I appreciate why people want to be able to ensure any stranger they’re interacting with isn’t actually some super problematic / hyper toxic player, but personally I’m pretty protective of my privacy and I like being able to go about my day in-game, IC or OOC, without someone trying to track down all my characters.
It’s a comfort thing, mostly. I don’t like people looking over my shoulder if I’m on my phone, my computer, even if I’m just reading a book. This falls under the same umbrella as those for me.
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Maybe there’s some deeply rooted psychological reason for it, but for the most part I just like being left alone. I keep myself offline on Steam, Bnet, Facebook, etc. just so I’m not being Observed by people and I can go along doing my own thing in peace.
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This is mostly what I think as well. I don’t -really- have any problem someone figuring out that it’s me on another character. But some part of my brain just likes to do stuff without anyone I know bothering me.
I’ve had myself set to offline on Discord for years. It’s just the default setting for me now. My Steam only has a select few people who can see what I’m up to anyway, so I’m not as bothered there.
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